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Exaggerated trait growth in insects.

Annual review of entomology - 7 Jan 2015

Lavine Laura, Gotoh Hiroki, Brent Colin S, Dworkin Ian, Emlen Douglas J

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Animal structures occasionally attain extreme proportions, eclipsing in size the surrounding body parts. We review insect examples of exaggerated traits, such as the mandibles of stag beetles (Lucanidae), the claspers of praying mantids (Mantidae), the elongated hindlimbs of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera), and the giant heads of soldier ants (Formicidae) and termites (Isoptera). Developmentally,...

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PMID: 25341090
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010814-021045

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